“Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.”

True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.

The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, “What are you going through?

All sins are attempts to fill voids.

A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.

There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.

Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.

Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.

At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world.

Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on.

Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.

Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.

Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.

Once we are honest about our feelings, we can invite ourselves to consider alternative modes of viewing our pain and can see that releasing our grip on anger and resentment can actually be an act of self-compassion.

We have the power to improve our work lives immeasurably through awareness, compassion, patience & ingenuity.

We have the power to improve our work lives immeasurably through awareness, compassion, patience & ingenuity.

It is awareness of both our shared pain and our longing for happiness that links us to other people and helps us to turn toward them with compassion.

One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.

Thinking we are only supposed to have loving & compassionate feelings can be a terrible obstacle to spiritual practice.

Compassion grows in us when we know how the energy of love is available all around us.

Self-compassion is like a muscle. The more we practice flexing it, especially when life doesn’t go exactly according to plan (a frequent scenario for most of us), the stronger and more resilient our compassion muscle becomes.